Lantern.



PATENT-ED JULY 30,1907.

v E. 0. EVERETT.

LANTERN.

APPLICATION TILED NOV. 22, 1000.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ERNEST o. EVERETT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO R. E. DIETZ COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

LANTERN.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be-it known that I, ERNEST C. EVERETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lanterns, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of lanterns in which the frame comprises a body hoop or ring and upright guard wires or members secured thereto.

The object of the invention is to secure the upright guard members to the body hoop in a simple, strong and inexpensive way. i

In the accompanying drawings: Figure l is an elevation of a lantern provided with. my improvement. Fig. 2 is a fragmentary vertical section of the body hoop and connecting parts. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section in line 33, Fig. 2, on an enlarged scale. Fig. 4 is a fragmentary elevation of the body hoop, showing a set of slits formed in the same for fastening one of .the upright guard members thereto. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view and Fig. 6 a vertical section, showing the fastening partly formed.

Like letters and numerals of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

A represents the body hoop, B the oil pot, C the air tubes, D the lantern top, E the upright guard wires or members, F the bail ears, and G the spring by which the oil pot is locked to the body hoop.

The guard wires or members are solid and extend upwardly and downwardly from the body hoop and are bent inwardly opposite the body hoop to form a bight or bent portion 10 between the upper portion 11 and the lower portion 12 of each wire or member.

The latter is secured to the body hoop with its bight or bent portion in the following manner: The tin or other sheet metal of which the body hoop is formed is cut by a vertical slit 13 and horizontal slits 14 at the upper and lower ends of the vertical slit. The lips 15 which are formed by these slits out of the sheet metal are then bent outwardly, as shown in Figs. 5

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 22,1906. Serial No. 344,569.

Patented July 30, 1907.

and 6, thereby forming an oblong, upright opening 16 in the metal with the lips 15 projecting outwardly at both sides of this opening. The latter is of such size as to receive the bight 10 of the guard wire between these lips. The sheet metal of the hoop is preferably bent inwardly or backwardly above and elbow this opening, so as to form depressed seats 17 against which the upper and lower portions of the bight rest.

For securing the upright guard wire or member to the body hoop, the bight of the member is placed between the lips 15 and against the seats 17. The lips are then closed down against the outer side of the bight, whereby the latter is firmly secured in an upright position between the seats 17 on the rear side of the bight and the lips 15 on the front side thereof. When all of the guard wires or members have been so attached to the body hoop and the other parts of the rigid lanternframe are also assembled in place, the frame is dipped in molten tin, whereby the parts of the frame are permanently secured together. The upright members of the guard may be constructed of wire, as shown, or of other suitable material.

I claim as my invention.

1. A lantern frame comprising a sheet metal ring and an upright guard member secured thereto, said ring being provided with upright lips which project outwardly from the ring and with rests for the guard member between said lips, the guard member being arranged between said lips and clamped between said rests and said lips, which latter are closed against the outer side of the guard member, substantially as set forth.

2. A lantern frame comprising a sheet metal ring and an upright guard member having a bight for attachment to said ring, the latter being provided with an upright opening, seats above and below said opening for the reception of said bight, and on opposite sides of said opening with outwardly projecting lips formed integrally with said ring and closed against the outer side of said bight, substantially as set forth.

Witness my hand this 16th November, 1906.

ERNEST C. EVERETT.

Witnesses GEO. A. ALLEN, OSCAR R. WEIss. 

